http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Massachusetts-lobster-pot-washes-up-on-Irish-shores-twenty-years-on-134958503.html

This was just too amazing not to share. I mean, normally when fishing pots get lost, they just kinda bury themselves in the mud and rot. This is a true oddity, and an almost unbelievable story.

Edit title: ripped "OFF", not of...

That really is crazy, that's a lot of ocean to cover.

:blink: Wow, that is insane.

Thats cool, but in another way, it's kinda creepy how someone that he's never met was able to track him down and get in contact with him with just the information on the pot and the Internet.

Always look on the bright side of life :whistling:

Maybe if I lose my wallet someone will send it back to me 20 years later, after they photocopy all of my information.

Not really.
At a cost of a couple of grand a piece, you want the person who finds it to contact you....

Well, really he already paid the cost of replacing that, since this is 20 years later, though yes it is nice that he got it back, but that's not the point I was making, but rather more along the lines of http://www.attackvector.org/invasion-of-privacy/. The person's information was obviously easily available, and as demonstrated in the Invasion of Privacy article, not everyone is going to be a kind person looking to return something -- are going to harm you.

lolwaht?

All I was saying is you thought it was creepy that he found him, and I stated that his personal info including, and probably not limited to his street/business address, was on that thing...

A person in Nimibia with a land line could've contacted him if they were so inclined...

That's not the way the article makes it sound, and given that this is 20 years later, the amount of information still valid would probably be such that contacting them in that way would not be possible, hence why they used facebook to contact them rather than a phone call -- which would be much simpler.

I would speculate that the address and phone number had changed in 20 years.

And I would speculate not... these guys are harvesting "generational" waters that their fathers, grandfathers, and great-grand-fathers plied their trades, and where dropping a pot in "their" water could literally find you bobbing face down in the seas. Lobster licenses/buoy numbers are inherited, not bought, and I'd bet dollars to doughnuts those guys are fishing from the same docks and out of the same shanties that their grandfathers were a hundred years ago.

But I digress... This was not the purpose of the thread, and I will leave it at that.

THEN WHO WAS POT?